-----Original Message----- From: ron minnich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue 12/20/2011 1:02 AM To: She, Kerry Cc: Kerry Sheh; [email protected] Subject: Re: [coreboot] Patch set updated for coreboot: 6709bdd Fix multipleVGA cards resource conflict on Windows On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, She, Kerry <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, Ron >> >>> I asked: >>> What do Linux or *BSD do in the same situation? Do they handle it cleanly? >> Linux VGA Arbiter module(vgaarb) will handle this explicitly. >> So dual vga card would works together, even coreboot not disable IO& MEM >> decoding on the second vga card. >OK, then, my concern about this patch is that you are making a >compile-time decision in coreboot to fix a problem with one operating >system (Windows) that will impact other operating systems that don't >have the problem. Yes, I agree. >I wonder if a better way to manage this is via a CMOS (aka NVRAM) >setting. I kind of hate to limit coreboot because Windows is limited. >But I'm a n00b in a sense, having just come back onto this project, so >I'm happy to be told I'm wrong :-) I think CMOS option is a better choice for this case, thanks for your advice. >ron >p.s. For those who don't know me, I've been out of coreboot for 2 >years, having been heavily involved from 1999 (when I started >LinuxBIOS) to 2009. Changing circumstances mean I get to work on it >again, which is nice. That's great, I'm glad to hear that you are back to work on coreboot again:) kerry
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